Market Design

I'll post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See also my Stanford profile. I have a general-interest book on market design: Who Gets What--and Why The subtitle is "The new economics of matchmaking and market design."

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

American guns fuel Haiti's gangs

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The U.S. is an importer of illegal drugs, and an exporter of illegal firearms (i.e. firearms whose sale is legal, even protected in the U.S....

Sunday, January 22, 2023

The trade in guns and drugs on the Mexico-US border

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It's well known that a lot of illegal drugs enter the U.S. over the border with Mexico. Less well known in the U.S. is that a lot of g...

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Global chocolate production and consumption

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This map of cocoa production and consumption from the Cocoa Barometer 2020 would make it easy to guess which way is North (were it not fo...

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Global markets in antiquity: olive oil and wine

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Markets are ancient human artifacts, and a recent paper in the EJ suggests that markets of global scale, based on comparative advantage and ...

Monday, May 18, 2020

Plasma and plasma products (such as antibodies) are a big business (and the U.S. dominates the international market)

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These days I'm thinking about corona virus covid-19 convalescent blood plasma, which I blogged about yesterday, and about which I hope ...

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